A team from KC College, Mumbai, have recently made a 20 minute documentary called ‘Eligible Encroachers’, that tries to speak for the tribal population of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, a protected forest, right at the heart of Mumbai. Between urban-encroachment and the forest-department, these ‘adivasis’, which are roughly a population of 11,000 families, are today left without the most basic amenities and almost nowhere to go.

By: Manish Khushalani

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